Rod Oracheski

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Rod Oracheski is a former sports editor for Wainwright papers, and has been gaming since the Atari 2600 and writing Game Misconduct since 2003. You can reach Rod at rod.oracheski@gmail.com or @oracheski on Twitter.

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III (which is a mouthful of a title that we’re going to shorten down to simply Van Helsing III going forward) arrived on Xbox One at the end of December as one of the Games with Gold titles...

Beholder: Complete Edition is a game that challenges you to be a decent human being while living under totalitarian rule. Beholder: Complete Edition is also a game that allows you to be a useful tool of the state, spying and reporting on your neighbours...

Whatever is in the water at the studio of Swedish developer Frictional Games, it’s led to the development of some of gaming’s best horror titles – from 2007’s Penumbra: Overture and its sequels, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and its sequel, and 2015’s SOMA –...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, affectionately known as PUBG (pronounced pub-gee) by fans, is one of those rarified games like Minecraft that, even if you've never actually played it, you’ve likely heard of it. Based on the 2000 film Battle Royale (a Japanese film in which high...

I love it when a game comes out of nowhere to catch my eye like Wartile – available now on PC via Steam – did this week. It’s an overhead real-time strategy title that mimics the setup of tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons,...

In 2014 MachineGames did what seemed impossible and rebooted Wolfenstein into a viable modern franchise with good critical reception of Wolfenstein: The New Order, largely erasing the bad memories of a failed 2009 reboot by Raven Software. Solid sales led to a standalone expansion...

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 offers up a campaign and a heaping helping of multiplayer, but it’s hard to say if it can overcome a tidal wave of negativity that feels – to be frank – like it’s all-too-often the misplaced ramblings of people who...

“This game is so ******* broken.”
I don’t know if there’s a better way to sum up the bulk of the Call of Duty World War II experience than that quote from Wednesday night’s multiplayer session.
The game, released November 3rd, has suffered easily the worst...

The Switch, Nintendo’s console/handheld hybrid system released in March of this year, has had a pretty solid first year, with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sustaining early adopters until Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2 released. This month saw the...

Following the 2015 release of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Ubisoft, the publisher behind the franchise, tried something that they hadn’t attempted since the series got its start – they took a break. The newest game in the series, a franchise that had seen a title...